AHC: America is a white supremacist nation

inb4 "it's white supremacist right now" (i partially subscribe to this, in the sense that minority rights and recognition are even today clearly...negotiable, but I'm able to type this to you and I haven't picked a gram of cotton in my life, so...)

Anyway, you really need a more openly Communist CRM; that was part of why South Africa could get away with Apartheid for so long, easy to scare the fence-sitters with the Red Bogeyman (it didn't work in the USA because the NAACP and other outlets were really good at respectability politics)
 
inb4 "it's white supremacist right now" (i partially subscribe to this, in the sense that minority rights and recognition are even today clearly...negotiable, but I'm able to type this to you and I haven't picked a gram of cotton in my life, so...)

Anyway, you really need a more openly Communist CRM; that was part of why South Africa could get away with Apartheid for so long, easy to scare the fence-sitters with the Red Bogeyman (it didn't work in the USA because the NAACP and other outlets were really good at respectability politics)
Interesting idea: how about a "anarchist scare" instead? For example, what if McKinley had been assassinated by a radicalized black man who had blamed him for the failure of Reconstruction? The twin spectre of anarchist terrorism and racial separatism could be something that might tip America towards an even worse turn-of-the-century.
 
Again, it isn't. There's a wide gulf between having issues with race, as a nation, and being a white-supremacist nation.

Would you care to elaborate? Personally I would put Japan, for instance, in the "having issues with race as a nation" category and the United States in the "white-supremacist nation" category.
 
I think if the north left in a huff but can't manage to pry away the Midwest America could develop into a real white supremacist state that keeps slavery well past its OTL end date and minorities have it quite a bit worse than OTL.
 
I think if the north left in a huff but can't manage to pry away the Midwest America could develop into a real white supremacist state that keeps slavery well past its OTL end date and minorities have it quite a bit worse than OTL.

So maybe going with the cliché of War of 1812 goes bad for the US, New England leaves and maybe New York as well, leaving a South-dominated country? Either way, the earlier the split, higher chances of sticking around longer, I'd say.
 
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